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Summary: A Well Researched Book
Review: The Expectant Father is a great book! This father/author is a sensitive, caring, and compassionate man. He knows what he is talking about, not only from his scholarly background but from personal experience. The content of the book is well researched and very readable. This book is a must for any parent.
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Summary: Refreshing, Informative, honest
Review: This book has become a classic. It was about the first one to present the man's views and experiences of pregnancy. I have given this book to a number of young dads and have received grateful comments about it. These dads went on to buy more titles such as The New Father and the Toddler Years dad. The author is a fine writer and has a sharp wit too.
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Summary: If I am a child, I would like to have this father
Review: "The Expectant Father" is a very valuable book that covers information dads need but can't find anywhere else. The well researched material is easy to understand and my husband consulted the book at every stage of my pregnancy. We recommend the book to any friends who are planning to become parents.
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Summary: A GOLDMINE OF INFORMATION
Review: This book is the perfect gift for expectant fathers. They will love it. Filled with sound advice and practical tips, this book is already a classic. It has helped shape a new generation of fathers and it will certainly help shape many, many more for years to come. Bravo Brott!
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Summary: Well meaning but haunted by spooky revisionist overtones
Review: Granted, Brott may be one of the few outnumbered voices for men and fatherhood in this decade, but this collaboration with Ash gives shallow advice at best, and reinforces creepy social engineering at worst. The smatterings of good advice that do manage to struggle to the surface now and again are sadly buried by an absolute avalanche of socially-approved happy thoughts. "The Expectant Father" tries so hard to be "appropriate" that it must often revise English itself to make its point. The most guilty and persistant Orwellian newspeak is the transformation of the pregnant woman into "your partner," medical professionals into "practitioners" and my favorite: "specially trained genetic counselors." "The Expectent Father" seems confused as to whether to offer practical advice to intelligent caring men, or to give a much needed scolding to the beer-drinking, women beatin' kind. On the one hand, the book suggests that a man "keep a journal...of what you're thinking and feeling..." and there are lists for grown men (supposedly) actually entitled "No-no's." On the other hand, men are warned that their "macho attitude has some very negative side affects," and even the author's father's waiting room nosebleed is confidently attributed to the father's seething subconscious jealously against his pregnant wife (rather than the more likely stress or excitement. The son clearly has lost touch with his father's values and ideals after only one generation.) Like most North American men of the last two generations, imbued with our brand new (and still relatively untried) anti-masculine social values, "The Expectant Father" means well, but is still completely unsure whether to open the door respectfully, or let her open it herself. Men: save your time and money, wait for someone to write a more objective book about the facts of pending fatherhood, and in the meantime, give your woman daily reasons to be proud to be with you.
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Summary: You should know this stuff already!
Review: This book presents only basic information that expectant fathers should already know before they read the book, or would be able to "intuit" naturally from the course of the pregnancy. Those who don't already know this stuff, or don't have the ability to figure it out on their own, have a real problem in my opinion! Also, it simplistically presents "typical" situations that expecting fathers are "expected" to feel month-by-month, throughout the 9-month period.....I must be atypical, because I didn't agree with any of the author's ideas of what I "should" be feeling during my wife's pregnancy. I don't know how many books out there have been targeted at men's experience of pregnancy, but this is a very bad example of one. Don't waste your time with this book. Instead, concentrate on some of the books written specifically for women, which will focus on more the technical realities of pregnancy.
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Summary: Men who need this book shouldn't become fathers
Review: Maybe I married one of the last remaining men on the planet who's emotionally secure and personally stable, but I found that this book was way beneath my spouse. Can you really imagine a man being "jealous" of all the attention his wife gets? Or being offended that people naturally assume that she's the primary caregiver? Well, duh!! Any man to whom the concerns in this book apply should NOT become a father. Oh, and one more thing -- the moral permissiveness of addressing the mother of the child as his "partner" so as to avoid "judgmental" labelling... Just chalk it up as yet another piece of contemporary culture adding to the degradation of the institution of the family (the MARRIED, committed, two-parent one -- not these disposable shack-up arrangements that call themselves families). Do yourself a favor and just give your husband "What to Expect..." He can make the translation on his own.
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Summary: Its a book you can do without
Review: A very superficial book, which goes through the motion of trying to explain pregnancy and how to handle it. Lacks details and depth. It could have done with more inputs from real dads.
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Summary: Not all men are this stupid !!!
Review: One word- Boring!! This book gets bogged down repeatedly with telling men how they are supposed to act and treat their wives. It treats men like they are all insensitive lunkheads who need the book to let them know that their wives are experiencing numerous difficulties and changes, DUH! Ignore this book, and read "What to expect when you're Expecting", what your wife is probably reading. Then you'll be more on the "Same Page".
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Summary: Finally, a book for men!
Review: There are literally thousands of books surrounding the miracle of childbirth. But, most are written to/for women. Finally, a book about preparing for that first child has arrived for men! And, it is good! I found the book to be informative, funny and insightful. It is a joy to have this practical manual. Every expectant father should get it!
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